Performance

For our stand and performance, we will include:

• Colorful and eye catching posters with just bar graphs or small quotes which give a direct, short but impacting information. We will be in some sort of different floor, next to the graphs and posters, giving us mobility to explain to them.

• There will also be a bullseye, with it our audience will play target shooting, so in that way the section that they choose (at random) will be explained by us, in a dynamic way, so people can participate in the presentation and don't stay sitting down throughout the whole presentation.

• We will also have a mannequin (maniqui) and we will pretend it is a victim of gossip and explain some things with it, by adding characteristic or happenings in the visual and mental aspect of this mannequin.

Here are the drawings of our stand. We will also show some examples of gossip like an example with wood and nails or the crumpling paper exercise. We would try to make our presentation the more eye catching and dinamic possible so people don't get bored. There will be 4-5 stations:

• Wood and nail
• Crumpling paper
• Computer (videos)
• Mannequin
• Posters (the picture below)

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This is the bullseye we will make so the presentation can become more dynamic and to involve the audience.

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We will put some sort of sticky notes and drawings on the mannequin to show how victims are affected/change with gossip.

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1. We welcome the audience (parents, teachers, bach, primary)

• Why we chose this topic
• Lines of inquiry

2. Bullseye :

• Posters
• Video Action
• Nail and Wood/crumpling paper
• True or false
• Mannequin
• 3 q's before gossip
• Balloons: Activity
• Free choice

4. Explanation:

• Remaining information

5. Balloons:

• Quotes
• Candies

5. Questions

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Introduction

1. We chose Gossip as our topic because we believe it is a huge problem in primary, school and all over the world. We've seen many people have been affected by it and we also know that it leads to other problems such as bulimia, anorexia, bullying and more. We also know that this is impossible to stop by ourselves, and nobody has enough power to make people not gossip, because we can only stop it if every individual has the will to stop, and the only way of having the will, is by getting to know all the problems it causes and really wanting to stop. Because every person controls their own words, we can't control them as if they were dummies.



2. We did an inquiry into:

1. The elements and causes of the bad communication which lead to gossip, in which we can find positive such as negative aspects.
2. The way in which bad communication affects personal and social life of an individual and its society.
3. The possible solutions to the distorted information (gossip) and its elements which can threaten the lives and relationships of individuals around society.

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Bullseye

If it lands in:

1. Posters: We will show some posters we did to explain the surveys we did and therefore show the audience the conditions of gossip in primary. We will have bar graphs tally charts and conclusions.


2. Video action: To show our action we would like to show them a video with pictures and short videos we filmed while doing our action. With the rest of the activities we will kind of do the action with our audience too. (workshops)


3. Nail and Wood/Paper : This is an activity in which every person has either a plank of wood, nails and a hammer or a paper. To the ones that have the wood, we will ask them to hammer a nail into it, and then take it out. And to the ones that have a paper, we will ask them to crumple and unwrinkle it. We will say that that is what happens with gossip... because neither the wood or the paper will ever be the same. The paper is still a little wrinkled and the wood has holes.


4. True or false: We will ask the audience some questions and depending on their answers we will explain why it is right or wrong. Questions:

• A gossip is when I say: Messi plays soccer in Barcelona. True or false?
• Gossip isn't always bad it can sometimes be good. True or false?
• Gossip has an important role in society. True or false?
• Gossip is the misuse of social communication. True or false?
• You can never heal a gossip once it is out. True or false?

5. Mannequinn: We will say the mannequin is a victim of gossip and we will show the way it changes physically and emotionally with sticky notes, drawing on him, thinking bubbles and more.




6. 3 Q's before gossip: We will show them a video:





7. Balloons activity: There will be balloons which the audience will explode with darts. Inside the balloon there will be a kind of gossip, and we will ask them to try to put it back in and blow up the balloon. They will not be able to do it, so we will explain that that is what happens with gossip, once it is out, there is no way of putting it back in.



8. Free choice: The audience can choose the activity they want to do next.

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Remaining information


Social communication/gossip is related to media because through social networks, phones, smartphones and other technological sources a lot of gossip is created and many people can be affected. Because many people can communicate much easier through technological sources than face to face, plus many people prefer to use social networks for mostly every type of communication, and people can't prove who said what.

Gossip is connected to many other problems such as bullying, peer pressure, depression and more.

• Bullying, because gossip is a type of bullying because many people/one are against one individual/group, destroy reputations and therefore bully.
• Peer pressure because if a gossip is about appearances victims may feel the pressure to change into extreme conditions such as anorexia, bulimia or extreme fat, etc.
• Depression because the victim feels excluded and sad and they can get depressed because people talk about him/her and don't like him/her.

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Balloons

• Quotes: People will explote the balloons wich are full of small papers with quotes:

Candies: People will explote the balloons wich are full of candies


El video es el resultado, a través de fotos, de las actividades que se llevaron a cabo durante la acción. Esta acción se desarrolló con los estudiantes de los grados 2º y 5º. La idea era lograr que los estudiantes comprendieran las causas y los efectos negativos que tiene la información malintencionada o el comúnmente llamado “chisme”. Las actividades, lúdicas en su mayoría, apuntaban a que los niños estuvieran atentos y participativos, a la vez que se apropiaban del mensaje.

The video was made with the photos we took during the action. We carried out the action with the second and fifth grade students. The idea was to have the students comprehend the causes and negative effects that misleading information/gossip has. The activities, mostly games, were aimed to have the kids concentrated and participating, at the same time that they were getting the message.

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La actividad de las bombas tiene como fin enseñar a las personas que cuando se da un chisme, es imposible remediar el daño. Para esto, las personas tendrán que explotar una bomba y el contenido de esta quedará al descubierto. Se pedirá a las personas que intenten poner el contenido de nuevo en la misma bomba, pero como esto no es posible porque ya se arruinó, verán de manera tangible, el daño irremediable que ocasiona el chisme.

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La depresión es una enfermedad mental que hace que quienes la padecen no encuentren felicidad en nada de lo que normalmente les haría feliz. Imposibilita a las personas a llevar una vida tranquila y puede hasta llevarlos al suicidio. Una persona víctima del chisme puede desarrollar esta enfermedad.

Depression is a mental disorder that makes those who suffer from it, not find happiness in what would normally make them happy. This desease can inhibit people from having a peaceful life and, in the worst of cases, can lead to suicide. A victim of gossip can develop this desease.